Canada's Private Sector Union

IMPACT Webinar Series

This year young workers have a new means to connect and learn – Impact. This webinar series brings together the brightest activists from across Canada to engage ideas on how to impact the systems they work and live in. Sign-up to attend via your laptop, smart phone or tablet clicking the link beside each topic when registration becomes available.

Creating Space: how to bring others with you. New and young workers often feel particularly disconnected from their union. You’ll leave this workshop with new strategies for empowering other young workers and getting them active in our movement.

Join Pablo Godoy (YIP Facilitator, Young Worker Activist, Union Rep) in a one hour webinar to create impact around this timely and relevant topic.

Talking Back (Part II): Calling Out/In. Egads, what can I do when I encounter discrimination and oppression? Learn how to effectively call out/in discrimination and oppression whether it's coming from outside or within your community.

Join Casey Oraa (COPE) (Equity and young worker activist), in both webinars to create impact around this timely and relevant topic.

More diverse than ever:building an inclusive labour movement. Young Canadians are the most diverse and pluralist generation in our history. How do we make sure that our unions reflect that diversity, and how do we build coalitions with organizations and movements where young people are already engage?

Join Bilan Arte (National Chairperson Canadian Federation of Students), in a one hour webinar to create impact around this timely and relevant topic.

Green is happening: getting the environmental message out. Unions and the left have an important role to play in creating a sustainable and ethical world. Examine the actions and steps young workers can take to be on the right side of history.

Join Marny Girard (Research and Communications Assistant: GEN)in a one hour webinar to create impact around this timely and relevant topic.

Speak Truth to Power: A feminist approach to work. Feminism, by its nature, embraces the belief that all people are entitled to freedom and equal civil rights--and that discrimination should not be made based on gender, sexual orientation, skin color, ethnicity, religion, culture, or lifestyle. Examine what it means to be a feminist in this world.

Join DJ Pohl (NUPGE), in this one hour webinar to create impact around this timely and relevant topic.